first edition
1967 · New York
by Hinton, S. E.
New York: The Viking Press, 1967. First Edition. First edition, first printing. 188 pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with red lettering to spine, red topstain. Very Good+ with slightly splayed boards, light rubbing and fading to extremities, and a few spots of foxing to textblock edges and endpapers. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with moderate edgewear, hint of toning to exposed panels, and minimal foxing. The first edition of S.E. Hinton's controversial novel about gang violence, written and published when she was a teenager. The inspiration for the 1983 Francis Ford Coppola film with numerous soon-to-be-famous Brat Pack actors like Tom Cruise, (truncated)